Auditory Performances in Older and Younger Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients: Use of the HEARRING Registry.

Objective: To evaluate the hearing outcomes of cochlear implantation in different age groups by using data collected in the HEARRING registry.

Methods: A multicenter study. Data of 146 patients were collected in a HEARRING registry.

Successful application and timing of a remote network for intraoperative objective measurements during cochlear implantation surgery.

Objective: To determine the time needed to remotely perform a set of intraoperative measurements during cochlear implantation surgery and to compare it to the time needed to perform the same measurements in theatre.

Design: Prospective two-arm study comparing a local with a remote measurement setting. Three intraoperative measurements (Impedance Field Telemetry (IFT), evoked compound action potential (ECAP) and evoked stapedius reflex test (eSRT)) were performed with the audiologist present in the operating theatre (i.

Electrically evoked compound action potentials are different depending on the site of cochlear stimulation.

One of the many parameters that can affect cochlear implant (CI) users' performance is the site of presentation of electrical stimulation, from the CI, to the auditory nerve. Evoked compound action potential (ECAP) measurements are commonly used to verify nerve function by stimulating one electrode contact in the cochlea and recording the resulting action potentials on the other contacts of the electrode array. The present study aimed to determine if the ECAP amplitude differs between the apical, middle, and basal region of the cochlea, if double peak potentials were more likely in the apex than the basal region of the cochlea, and if there were differences in the ECAP threshold and recovery function across the cochlea.

The Mi1000 CONCERTO PIN cochlear implant: An evaluation of its safety and stability in adults and children.

Conclusion The study demonstrates the medium-term stability and safety of the CONCERTO PIN cochlear implant. The use of the CONCERTO PIN proved to be suitable for the use of a surgical technique without the need for suture fixation and resulted in short surgery duration and a low medium-term complication rate. Objective The primary aim was to provide data on medium-term safety and stability of the CONCERTO PIN cochlear implant in adults and children, and to collect feedback on the surgical technique used, which involved no drilling and no suture fixation.

Quality standards for bone conduction implants.

Conclusion: Bone conduction implants are useful in patients with conductive and mixed hearing loss for whom conventional surgery or hearing aids are no longer an option. They may also be used in patients affected by single-sided deafness.

Objectives: To establish a consensus on the quality standards required for centers willing to create a bone conduction implant program.

Speech perception with interaction-compensated simultaneous stimulation and long pulse durations in cochlear implant users.

Early multi-channel designs in the history of cochlear implant development were based on a vocoder-type processing of frequency channels and presented bands of compressed analog stimulus waveforms simultaneously on multiple tonotopically arranged electrodes. The realization that the direct summation of electrical fields as a result of simultaneous electrode stimulation exacerbates interactions among the stimulation channels and limits cochlear implant outcome led to the breakthrough in the development of cochlear implants, the continuous interleaved (CIS) sampling coding strategy. By interleaving stimulation pulses across electrodes, CIS activates only a single electrode at each point in time, preventing a direct summation of electrical fields and hence the primary component of channel interactions.

Remote programming of MED-EL cochlear implants: users' and professionals' evaluation of the remote programming experience.

Conclusion: Remote programming is safe and is well received by health-care professionals and cochlear implant (CI) users. It can be adopted into clinic routine as an alternative to face-to-face programming.

Objectives: Telemedicine allows a patient to be treated anywhere in the world.